Ghost Rates Among Surprise Billing Rule Flaws, Providers Say

(January 20, 2023, 1:33 PM EST) -- DALLAS — “Ghost rates” and the use of potentially enormous geographic regions to determine contracted rates haunt an agency rule and combined with delayed payment determinations are directly contradictory to the clear language of the No Surprises Act (NSA), which puts providers on unequal footing and renders the rule both unfair and unlawful, a group of medical providers tell a Texas federal judge....